Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

Packaged software has long been used to perform standard corporate functions such as accounting, payroll, purchasing, human resources, and manufacturing. As technology has improved over the years, ...

Last week saw people react to Klarna’s decision to replace SaaS package software with AI-developed apps. Much of the analysis seems right, but Brian Sommer adds an additional perspective we might want ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP posted quarterly profit at the low end of forecasts, hit by weak sales of its traditional packaged software and a rapid shift by customers to ...

Podcast: Protecting your intellectual property: Everyday, it seems, there’s a new charge of one company stealing another’s intellectual property or violating a patent. Most recently, Microsoft charged ...

The packaged software industry includes companies that offer multiple software programs bundled together to make a complete set. Microsoft Office, for example, is a packaged software as it includes ...

Retail-sector CIOs said last week that they still face challenges finding packaged software to meet their needs, particularly in the supply chain areas. Such difficulties plagued Kmart Corp., which ...

Forrester’s Jeffrey Hammond recently posted interesting data on custom software spending based on a survey of 1,138 IT professionals in North America and Europe in Q4 2009. According to Forrester, ...